Best Karen Dominick Poems

When we first met, I was
caring
sharing
loving
to you
After awhile together, you were
abusing
bruising
confusing
to me
Now that I'm alone, I am
groveling
cowering
cringing
to everyone
Blows that bruise the face
can heal without a trace
But words keep their ugly embrace
that time can never erase
Feeling worthless is a place
that takes real strength to ever out race.

How do I tell the truth without telling a lie?
Spill my guts and walk away
Leaving someone else to clean up my mess
I threw the rock that broke the glass
Now to kiss and tell and wish you well
You had all the best and I'm left with the rest
Just a coward hiding in the fray
Trying to live up to seeing the sunny day
Worried that light might shine through the shattered glass
and find that I was the one who broke my heart in two

It's winter's evening, I am driving home. The bare trees whisper my vulnerability like a secret to the sky. I've come again to an all too familiar crossroads; the one of dreams and fear. I stop at the traffic light waiting but I am lost within a cold ocean of myself. Overhead on the telephone wires, a flock of blackbirds have gathered. The electric current keeps their toes snug and warm as they chatter; eavesdropping on my thoughts. I wonder why the birds have chosen this particular place with all its confusion? Perhaps they are my muse, my witnesses and they wait for a change in the signal too. With a slight ripple in the wind and the light, their wings lift up in unison and I am lifted too. I have no need to tarry; I turn towards the fading sun. My heart is carried by a light haven. Inhaling a deep breath of me, I pass a billboard that tells me to have courage.

What is the meaning of life and death?
Why do some grow old & babies die before their first breath?
Where is God and why have faith?
When will there be justice and why speak the truth?
What is war about and why do men hate?
Why do some feel true love and others receive nothing but heartache?
When we die, do we finally know the answers?
or do we simply cease asking?

Now the moon is shining bright
I am cradled in silence of the night
Mother of heaven in darken blue curls
My dreams are obscured within your pearls
glimmering in an otherwise ebony sky
Encouraged by a melodic lullaby
of distant and reverberating thunder
I fade fast to the deepest of slumber
If by the coming morning light
as she yields gracefully in her flight
Given her one final epiphany,
Will she set my dreams free?

I liken happiness as I would
to my best friend and soul mate.
When she leaves my life,
she announces her departure loud & clear.
There is no mistake; she has gone away.
But when she re-enters my life, she's silent.
Like a game of Guess Who?, she sneaks up
behind me & taps me on the shoulder.
I always turn around in total surprise
and amazement; then embrace her too tight.
I don't care where she has been,
I'm just content she's returned to me.

She sings sweetly
a song borne of love
She is a child of God
and the mother of doubt
she'll push and shove
then hide as she dances all about
lost in the wane of soft moonlight
A powerful beauty contained
within blue eyes, a golden stare
of burning fire raging on starry night
She's an essence
of what cannot be restrained
a shadow flirting deep into the foggy mist
She's been waiting for a long slow kiss
to set her free
not realizing she's already there

I want to be set free
I'm locked away without a key
I want someone to come rescue me
From the prison of my own insanity
I want to be set free
Give me back my dignity
Do I have to let go or take my life away
Out of black and into grey
I want to be set free
Where is my identity
Where do I go
to find my lost soul?
I want to be set free
Looking hard for serenity
I'm sure its right here in plain view
If only I could stop from loving you

Bittersweet a day is complete
Shadows prance, light fades in retreat
A melody plays a song yet unsung
Dreams sashay as the clock chimes one
Glass castles built dare invite a perfect aim
Yet the castle still dances merrily all the same
and therein does remain love so very young

The cold wind blows against two warm hearts
Leading one heart astray, the other one broken
Don't ask the reason why
As answers echo a truth unspoken
Where once there was a beautiful garden
bursting into life
Now lies barren ground cold
and heavy with strife
Dreams escaping into thin air
like clouds passing in the sky
Reaching to hold them captive
By never saying goodbye
The wounded spirit floats in circles round
upon her wings
Carrying heaviness in her heart
to the pain that she brings
Forever jaded by seeing love feign
through a stained glass windowpane
Pray one day a sweetened breeze
Comes and calms these haunted memories